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1741 in poetry

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Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France).

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Events

  • About this time Thomas Seaton established the Seatonian Prize at Cambridge University for religious poetry

    • Great Britain

  • Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales of Chaucer, posthumous edition edited by George Ogle
  • Stephen Duck, Every Man in his Own Way
  • Thomas Francklin, Of the Nature of the Gods, anonymously published translation from the Latin of Cicero's De natura deorum
  • Sarah Parsons Moorhead, "Lines [. . .] Dedicated to the Rev. Mr. George Tennent", sharply criticizes the clergyman; English Colonial American
  • Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, An Ode to Mankind, published anonymously
  • William Shenstone, The Judgment of Hercules
  • Leonard Welsted, The Summum Bonum; or, Wistest Philosophy
  • John Wesley and Charles Wesley, A Collection of Psalms and Hymns (see also Hymns and Sacred Poems 1739)
  • William Whitehead, The Danger of Writing Verse

    • Other

  • Johann Jakob Bodmer, Kritische Betrachtungen über die poetischen Gemählde der Dichter a German-language critical treatise published in Switzerland

    • Births

    Death years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • March 25 – Daniel Schiebeler (died 1771) German writer and poet
  • April 11 – Johann Heinrich Merck (died 1791), German critic, essayist, editor, writer and poet
  • November 15 – Johann Kaspar Lavater (died 1801), Swiss clergyman, philosopher, writer and poet

    • Deaths

    Birth years link to the corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:

  • March 17 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (born 1671)

    • References

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